Stable Peace Among Nations

Foreword by Alexander L. George Contributions by Rikard Bengtsson, Magnus Ericson, James Goodby, Joe D. Hagan, Adrian Hyde-Price, Benjamin Miller, Kjell-Åke Nordquist, John M. Owen IV, Alfred Tovias, Raimo Våyrynen Edited by Arie M. Kacowicz, Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov, Ole Elgström, Magnus Jerneck

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Publication date:

25 October 2000

Length of book:

352 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781461618102

This book builds on the original conceptualization of stable peace by Kenneth Boulding and adds contemporary theoretical and empirical understandings of its nature, causes, conditions, dimensions, and prospects for consolidation and expansion. In original research, fifteen international scholars assess the policy relevance of stable peace for the Middle East peace process and for the future of Europe.

Chapter 1 Stable Peace: A Conceptual Framework
Chapter 2 Domestic Political Sources of Stable Peace: The Great Powers, 1815-1854
Chapter 3 The International, Regional, and Domestic Sources of Regional Peace
Chapter 4 Pieces of Maximal Peace: Common Identities, Common Enemies
Chapter 5 The Cognitive Dimension of Stable Peace
Chapter 6 Stable Peace through Security Communities? Steps towards Theory-Building
Chapter 7 Birds of a Feather? On the Intersections of Stable Peace and Democratic Peace Research Programs
Chapter 8 The Economic Aspects of Stable Peace-Making
Chapter 9 Issue Treatment and Stable Peace: Experiences from Boundary Agreements
Chapter 10 From Adaptation to Foreign Policy Activism: Sweden as a Promoter of Peace?
Chapter 11 Stable Peace in South America: The ABC Triangle: 1979-1999
Chapter 12 Israel-Egypt Peace as Stable Peace?
Chapter 13 Stable Peace in Europe
Chapter 14 Stable Peace in Mitteleuropa: The German-Polish Hinge
Chapter 15 Stable Peace: Conclusions and Extrapolations

What I have been suggesting is that it is best to regard the 'democratic peace' phenomenon as a subset of the broader general phenomenon of stable peace. In this connection, I would like to raise the question whether stable peace is possible only and has occurred only between countries that are democracies. A more comprehensive research program would look for historical cases of stable peace between countries that are not democracies, or between states only one of which is a democracy. Some of the research on 'zones of peace' by Professor Arie Kacowicz reported in his earlier publications and referred to in this volume moves in this direction. It is important to apply the distinction between conditional and stable peace also in such studies.